{"id":768,"date":"2012-07-19T12:34:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T16:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-lowcoburn\/?page_id=768"},"modified":"2022-01-28T12:58:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T17:58:28","slug":"transcription-smith-to-coburn-4181901","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/transcription-smith-to-coburn-4181901\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcription of letter from George [Otis Smith?] to Louise Coburn, 4\/18\/1901"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 18th 1901<\/p>\n<p>My dear Louise:<br \/>\nAn invitation from Frank Hanson<br \/>\nas Sec\u2019y of the N.Y. Alumni asss\u2019n], and also<br \/>\nletter from Prof. Hall came this morning. I will<br \/>\ntherefore go to N.Y. tomorrow to do what I can<br \/>\nat the meeting. Since writing the above a letter<br \/>\nhas come from Frank Padelford. He has written<br \/>\nme before about petition and I first advised<br \/>\nhim to go slow + consult trustees and next<br \/>\nI wrote him that Mr. Giddings heartily approved<br \/>\nsuch a counter-petition. <del datetime=\"2012-07-19T15:46:46+00:00\">Now he writes that<br \/>\nDrummond<\/del> He told me not to quote D. At any rate,<br \/>\nFrank is uncertain. Many of the alumni have<br \/>\nsigned Bassett\u2019s petition and it seems questionable<br \/>\nwhether we will strengthen our position with a<br \/>\ncounter-petition which would have a shorter<br \/>\nlist. But, I can talk this over with<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Hall at N.Y. tomorrow. I\u2019m glad<br \/>\nthat you wrote + quite like to be sent to<br \/>\nthe front!<\/p>\n<p>By the way, my uncle Zem takes the western<br \/>\nview \u2013 that coeducation is practical + sensible \u2013<br \/>\nno question to be discussed, since experience has<br \/>\nproved this.<\/p>\n<p>In haste,<br \/>\nGeorge.<\/p>\n<p>[Probably George Otis Smith, 1896]<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-768\" data-postid=\"768\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-768 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 18th 1901 My dear Louise: An invitation from Frank Hanson as Sec\u2019y of the N.Y. Alumni asss\u2019n], and also letter from Prof. Hall came this morning. I will therefore go to N.Y. tomorrow to do what I can at the meeting. Since writing the above a letter has come from Frank Padelford. He has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7698,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14698,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/768\/revisions\/14698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}